XXIII International Congress of History of Science and Technology
28 July -2 August 2009

Symposium: Scientific correspondences in the digital age

This symposium intends to explore the new research avenues opened − and the questions posed − by online editions of scientific correspondences. It will be the opportunity to discuss editorial practices, the possibility of common metadata, and to present researches either on a specific correspondence or on a series of contemporary correspondences. From individual projects to big editorial enterprises, from 17th to 20th centuries, from studies on an idiosyncratic author to social analysis of scientific networks on a multinational scale, online editions with their editorial tools may offer answers to old questions impossible to be taken up before.

CHRISTINE BLONDEL
CNRS researcher (Centre Alexandre-Koyré/CRHST).
Editor of the on-line correspondence of Ampère, available on the website Ampère et l'histoire de l'électricité (http://www.ampere.cnrs.fr).
Organizer of the international group "Correspondences Project" ( http://www.correspondances.cnrs.fr)

IVANO DAL PRETE
Research Fellow in History of Early Modern Science, University of Eastern Piedmont, Philosophy Department.
Visiting scholar, Yale University
Editor of the on-line inventory of Antonio Vallisneri’s correspondence; available at http://www.vallisneri.it/inventario.shtml.

2005: Ph.D. in History of European Society, University of Verona. Scienza e Società nella Terraferma Veneta (“Science and society in the Venetian mainland,1680-1796”)

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